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CAPTAIN JEFF 

AND THE 


SQUEEZE BOX 


Story by Ruth K. Todt 
Photographs by R. D. Richardson 


ALBERT WHITMAN & COMPANY 

ILLINOIS 


CHICAGO 


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Copyright, 1940, by 
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Note—The text of this book is set in Manuscript type, the same alphabet that 
the boy and girl first learns to identify and to use at school. The purpose of 
the book is to present easy, interesting reading for the beginner, with no new 
type faces to confuse the reader. 

RECEIVED 

MAY 1 7 1940 

COPYRIGHT OFFICE 


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Linda made a marionette. 
She made him out of cloth and 
cotton and paper and paint. 


When he was finished, Linda 
held him in front of a mirror and 
told him to look at himself. 


So he looked! 









In the glass was a little old 
man dressed in a faded blue sailor 
suit. He had a white cap on his 
head. He had a pipe in his mouth 

















and he had a wooden leg. 


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Your name," said Linda, 


Captain Jeff. 


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Captain Jeff liked his blue 
sailor suit; he liked his pipe, but 



"Just like a real sailor,"he said. 











Linda set Captain Jeff care 
the sofa and left him there. 







Captain Jeff looked around 
the room. There were a lot of 
other marionettes on the chairs. 

There were even some on 
the floor. 





























So Captain Jeff climbed 
carefully down f rom the sofa and 
went across the room to see the 
others. 


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One was a little Negro girl 
whose name was Binnacle Brown. 


Everybody called her Binny. 


















She was very dark and very 
friendly. Captain Jeff liked her 
best of a I. 









One day Linda came and put 
a red box into Captain Jeff’s 
hands. 





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"There," she said, "now you 
can make music. 

"Soon we will give a show. 
Binny will dance and you will play 
and the people will clap and clap." 

Then Linda went away. 


























Captain Jeff took the box in 

his hands and he PULLED and 

the box 

STRETCHED 















Then he PUSHED and the box 

SQUEEZED TOGETHER 

and it got little again. 







Why," he said, "this is a 

SQUEEZE BOX." 

But 

there wasn’t any music! 
































"How can I dance a hornpipe 
with no music?" asked Binny. 

"I don’t know how to make it 
work," said Captain Jeff. "Linda 
Forgot to show me how." 


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So Binny went to ask Long 
Anton and Short Otto who were 
sitting under a table. 













"They will know what to do," 
she said, "for they are singers 
and know all about music." 

Although Anton and Otto 
tried very hard, they couldn’t 
make it work either. 
























Binny said she was sorry 
too and she went away. Captain 
Jeff was left alone with the 
Squeeze Box. 





Captain Jeff sat and looked 
at the box. 

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himself, "I don’t like my Squeeze 
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Then it was the day for 
the Show that Linda had told 
him about. 


Captain Jeff was ready to 
go on the stage. 














Linda took a large black 
plate with a hole in the middle 
of it. She put it into a big black 
box with a handle on one side. 
Captain Jeff watched her. 
























Then he went sadly onto 


the stage. 
















The people clapped and 
clapped and waited for him to 
begin. So he slowly opened his 

box and PUSHED! 
















And suddenly there was 

MUSIC. 

The big black box that 
Linda had was a victrola. The 
black plate was a record of 
someone playing a real Squeeze 
Box. 


















Binny, who was waiting on 
the other side of the stage, came 
out and danced a hornpipe, which 
is a sailor’s dance. 

Captain Jeff pulled and 
pushed, and beat time with his 
wooden leg. 

The people clapped and 
clapped. 









NOW Captain Jef f LIKES 
his Squeeze Box. But sometimes 
the other marionettes wish he 
didn’t because when they are 
alone in the house, Captain Jeff 
sets the record going. 





















Then he sits down and plays. 






























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